Visual Artists and HIV
Since 1989, art galleries and museums have taken note of the toll that HIV has taken on artists and their communities. While a number of HIV+ artists are well known, such as photographers Robert Mapplethorpe and Herb Ritts and painter Keith Haring, the disease still affects the art world today. Profiled below are three artists whose work is making a significant impact in the art world today. Photographer John Dugdale produces fragile, beautiful cyanotypes and calotypes that often feature LGBTQ themes (even the flowers – really!).Born in 1960, Dugdale studied photography at New York’s School of the Visual Arts. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1982 and lived with the disease mostly in check until 1993, when he suffered two … Continued